Click below for marking criteria (levels 4 and 5) for Writing. You should give two stars and a wish for comments and then work out what level they are, using the criteria. Then try to work out if they are an A (top of the level), B (middle) or C (developing).
Well done to Rahil, Adolfo and Jaime L for producing this excellent video highlighting the plight of the homeless. An amazing piece of work boys, well done.
Homework for Wednesday 21st November
Research Spanish Homelessness in English, NOT SPANISH. Get a general idea of homelessness, the amount of homeless in Spain and how many more have become homeless since the beginning of the Crisis in 2008.
You will get more specific instructions in the coming days; I want you to get an overall idea first.
Make sure you are bookmarking and highlighting websites to Diigo; see me if there are any problems.
Group 1 - Ana, Lucia P, Cova
Group 2 - Alessandra, Alejandra.
Group 3 - Adolfo, Jaime, Rahil.
Group 4 - Andre, Felipe, Alejandro.
Group 5 - Carla, Edu, Claudia.
Installing Diigo tools on your home computers.
Click here to go to the page for downloading the right tools for your browser. The Diigolet will work on most browsers, but have a look around to find what suits your best.
Sign in with your REAL name (no spaces). It is easy to trace addresses back to your home computers. If you are found to have used a fake name or misbehaved IN ANY WAY (being unkind to others etc), this will be dealt with in school, your parents notified and you will be banned from the school network for a long time.
If it does not work in Chrome, try it with Internet Explorer, Safari or Firefox - I had some issues using it with Chrome earlier today.
Have a discussion about Stone Cold. Use the following questions to guide your discussion:
1. What did you like/dislike about the ending.
2. What does Link mean when he says "Yeah, but justice was done - right?" What does he mean by this? Was justice done (Shelter was arrested...)
3. Do you think Link would prefer Shelter to be arrested or killed?
4. Do you think that Gail was a bad person? Was she just a journalist who fell in love, or did she trick Link? Back up your answer with things which happened earlier in the book.
5. Why do you think the author chose to end the story this way?
You should look to enter into a discussion on todaysmeet.com. Talk to each other, agree/disagree; just like in class today!
Follow the instructions on the page (to watch three times and make notes on your third playing, pausing when you need to add more to your notes).
Make notes at the back of your English jotter.
You should spend 40 minutes to an hour on this.
Have a good weekend!!
Homework for: Friday, 26th October
[UPDATE] - I have tried accessing the site today (Thursday @ 7.15pm) and I am also getting the 'Error establishing a database connection' error message.
Do what you can and keep trying to access it; hopefully it will be back online as soon as possible.
Use your information that you researched for homework (if you failed to do this, you must also research a topic of your choice and get lots of facts and figures BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE) to create your own infographic.
Homework for: Friday, 19th October
Research statistics and facts (percentages etc) for anything of your choice.
For example, if you wanted to create an infographic on Spain, you could google "facts and figures for Spain". You would then write down some information.
In groups, come up with an original story that has an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
In your groups of 5, each person now decides which part of the triangle they are going to write about. Smaller groups will need to have a few people doing more than one section; it is ok for them to be shorter stories than groups who have 5 members.
Each person now plans out, using bullet points, their section(s) of the plot triangle.
5-10 minutes group discussion. Show each other your section(s) and make sure it all links together PERFECTLY.
Write it. - each person on an A4 sheet of paper writes a chapter - NEATLY. A chapter is your section of the plot triangle.
Finished? Proofread and check each others
Finished again?! Storyboard it. - divide an A3 sheet of paper into 8 boxes, with space underneath to write a short explanation of what is going on in the picture box. Each box progresses the story on one more stage.
Finished AGAIN? -SLOW DOWN! Is your work ALL of the best quality?
Ok?
Illustrate your chapter
Create posters to advertise novel
COULD type up in ICT suite.
ICT HOMEWORK for: Friday, 6th October. Make notes on the following presentation on research skills. This should be done at the back of your English jotter:
Look at the discussion forums and add comments about your presentation. You can discuss who needs to do what, who needs to bring what, or any last minute ideas you have that you would like to share with your group.
Click on the speech bubbles at the top right of this page (with the number '3' beside them).
Practice your questions and answers, especially if you are Link, Shelter or the interviewer.
Homework for: Monday, 1st October
NOTE MAKING
Make notes on the following prezi for NARRATIVE VOICE. Use your own words as far as possible.
Your group is to design a theme park based on Stone Cold. Think about:
How the ride will look: Colours, sounds, size...
What will happen during the ride: Will the riders get soaked wet, scared....
What kind of speed will it go at?
Will there be any loops or drops in it?
In your English jotters OR paper, design one ride for your theme park. Draw and colour it in, as well as labelling the different features on it (what different things do).
Underneith it, write a few paragraphs of description. It should include:
--> a written description of what it looks like; what happens during it; how the riders will feel when on the ride etc.
--> Use GOOD WORDS and make it exciting. SELL your ride to your reader; convince people why they should ride your ride.
Use the following resources to help you think about layout, size, colour etc:
It has happened again. I was on my way to inspect theatreland when two dossers approached me. One – the scruffier of the two – asked me for change. I responsed in my usual way, and as I passed on I distinctly heard them laughing. I hope for their sakes that they manage to retain that sense of humour because they’ll need it quite soon. I never forget a face, and our next meeting will prove far more amusing for me than for them.
By golly it will.
Using the extract from the book (Daily Routine Orders 8, above), answer the following questions:
Pick a feature from the text above (sentence structure (short sentences etc) or word choice) and explain why it is effective (what effect does it create, why is it a good choice of word...)
Who are the "two dossers" Shelter is talking about?
Why do you think Shelter hopes they "retain that sense of humour because they'll need it quite soon"?
What do you think may happen next?
Homework for: Monday, 24th September.
You are either Shelter or Link. In your English jotters, write a diary entry (using first person narrative) detailing what has happened up to now in the book.
You should include your chosen character's thoughts and feelings and attempt to copy their style of writing: Shelter will use military words and quite formal language; Link will use more slang.
You can add things that have not happened in the book as background information or go into more depth about certain things (how Link feels about getting his watch stolen or how Shelter felt as he was murdering his victims, for example). Make sure it's not just all about blood and murder though (boys!).
The groupwork notes to help you can be found here:
Good evening. As I have had difficulties uploading the homework, it is now due for Wednesday, 19th September.
You are to draw analyse the language that Shelter uses in the following photographs and create a word cloud (a cloud shape containing lots of words) of MILITARY WORDS. For example, "tour of inspection". Only write the key words, not full sentences (unless you think the full sentence reminds you of militarial language (as we have discussed in class). Any questions, come and see me before THURSDAY'S lesson!
Homework - for Thursday, 13th September.
Finish 9/11 writing. Remember to state if you are writing from the point of view of a person trapped in the buildings; a person who thinks a loved one may be trapped or a firefighter who has to enter the building.
Include your thoughts and feelings through and remember to CREATE SETTING - use the five senses to bring your work to life!
One finished in your English book, type up, print it out and hand in on THURSDAY, 13th September.
1-1.5 pages long, Arial, calibri or tahoma fonts; 12 or 14pt.
Type up on computer and print out. About 1-1/2 pages ´NO MORE.
Mr Gibb 9G´s English Class
Hello! This wiki will grow as we go forward.
REMEMBER - YOU CAN COPY, PASTE AND USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE IF YOU DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND ANY INSTRUCTIONS ON THE WIKI!!
http://translate.google.es/
Marking criteria and Visual Writing Prompts
Click below for marking criteria (levels 4 and 5) for Writing. You should give two stars and a wish for comments and then work out what level they are, using the criteria. Then try to work out if they are an A (top of the level), B (middle) or C (developing).
Go here: http://visualwritingprompts.wordpress.com/page/1/. This website gives you visual writing prompts. Decide upon a piece and begin writing.
Homelessness Project
Well done to Rahil, Adolfo and Jaime L for producing this excellent video highlighting the plight of the homeless. An amazing piece of work boys, well done.
Homework for Wednesday 21st November
Create your own mind maps at MindMeister
Group 1 - Ana, Lucia P, Cova
Group 2 - Alessandra, Alejandra.
Group 3 - Adolfo, Jaime, Rahil.
Group 4 - Andre, Felipe, Alejandro.
Group 5 - Carla, Edu, Claudia.
Installing Diigo tools on your home computers.
Click here to go to the page for downloading the right tools for your browser. The Diigolet will work on most browsers, but have a look around to find what suits your best.
Daily Routine Orders 16 Writing Task
Click on the link below for instructions.ICT Homework for Thursday, 15th November.
Finish creating your infographic for Things I would like to Learn in ICT.
Share it with me.
To do this:
Homework for: Monday, 12th November
Go to http;//todaysmeet.com/stonecold9g.
Sign in with your REAL name (no spaces). It is easy to trace addresses back to your home computers. If you are found to have used a fake name or misbehaved IN ANY WAY (being unkind to others etc), this will be dealt with in school, your parents notified and you will be banned from the school network for a long time.
If it does not work in Chrome, try it with Internet Explorer, Safari or Firefox - I had some issues using it with Chrome earlier today.
Have a discussion about Stone Cold. Use the following questions to guide your discussion:
1. What did you like/dislike about the ending.
2. What does Link mean when he says "Yeah, but justice was done - right?" What does he mean by this? Was justice done (Shelter was arrested...)
3. Do you think Link would prefer Shelter to be arrested or killed?
4. Do you think that Gail was a bad person? Was she just a journalist who fell in love, or did she trick Link? Back up your answer with things which happened earlier in the book.
5. Why do you think the author chose to end the story this way?
You should look to enter into a discussion on todaysmeet.com. Talk to each other, agree/disagree; just like in class today!
Try to answer and discuss each question.
Homework for: Monday, 29th October.
Homework for: Friday, 26th October
[UPDATE] - I have tried accessing the site today (Thursday @ 7.15pm) and I am also getting the 'Error establishing a database connection' error message.
Do what you can and keep trying to access it; hopefully it will be back online as soon as possible.
Homework for: Friday, 19th October
Research statistics and facts (percentages etc) for anything of your choice.
For example, if you wanted to create an infographic on Spain, you could google "facts and figures for Spain". You would then write down some information.
EG:
total area: 504,782 sq km
15-64 years: 67.6% (male 13,741,493/female 13,641,914)
65 years and over: 17.9% (male 3,031,597/female 4,231,444) (2008 est.)
Write this information down in your English jotters and bring to class with you tomorrow.
This will then be turned into an infographic in class.
Please, if possible, sign up to easel.ly- it´s free and will save time in tomorrow´s lesson! (http://easel.ly)
This is an example of an infographic, for ICT on Friday:
easel.ly
Experiment with http://easel.ly (signup required) in preparation (optional!)
This is also a link to a website showing cool infographics to give you more ideas:
http://www.coolinfographics.com/blog/2012/9/11/what-is-an-infographic-explained-with-legos.html
Cover Work: Week beginning 8th October
- ** Please show the video of the plot triangle (on wiki: http://mrgibb9g.wikispaces.com/Plot+Triangle)
- In groups, come up with an original story that has an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
- In your groups of 5, each person now decides which part of the triangle they are going to write about. Smaller groups will need to have a few people doing more than one section; it is ok for them to be shorter stories than groups who have 5 members.
- Each person now plans out, using bullet points, their section(s) of the plot triangle.
- 5-10 minutes group discussion. Show each other your section(s) and make sure it all links together PERFECTLY.
- Write it. - each person on an A4 sheet of paper writes a chapter - NEATLY. A chapter is your section of the plot triangle.
Finished?Proofread and check each others
ICT HOMEWORK for: Friday, 6th October.
Make notes on the following presentation on research skills. This should be done at the back of your English jotter:
Researching on Prezi
Homework for: Thursday, 4th October
Homework for: Monday, 1st October
NOTE MAKING
Make notes on the following prezi for NARRATIVE VOICE. Use your own words as far as possible.Stone Cold on Prezi
SHELTERLAND
Your group is to design a theme park based on Stone Cold.
Think about:
- In your English jotters OR paper, design one ride for your theme park. Draw and colour it in, as well as labelling the different features on it (what different things do).
- Underneith it, write a few paragraphs of description. It should include:
--> a written description of what it looks like; what happens during it; how the riders will feel when on the ride etc.--> Use GOOD WORDS and make it exciting.
SELL your ride to your reader; convince people why they should ride your ride.
Use the following resources to help you think about layout, size, colour etc:
http://www.coastergrotto.com/top-10-parks.jsp
http://www.worlds-best-amusement-parks.com/
Homework for: Tuesday, 25th September.
Use the following extract to help with your homework. Write the answers in your English jotter. If you do not understand a word, look it up online (using a Spanish-English dictionary or www.dictionary.com).
Daily Routine Orders 8
It has happened again. I was on my way to inspect theatreland when two dossers approached me. One – the scruffier of the two – asked me for change. I responsed in my usual way, and as I passed on I distinctly heard them laughing. I hope for their sakes that they manage to retain that sense of humour because they’ll need it quite soon. I never forget a face, and our next meeting will prove far more amusing for me than for them.By golly it will.
Homework for: Monday, 24th September.
You are either Shelter or Link. In your English jotters, write a diary entry (using first person narrative) detailing what has happened up to now in the book.
You should include your chosen character's thoughts and feelings and attempt to copy their style of writing: Shelter will use military words and quite formal language; Link will use more slang.
You can add things that have not happened in the book as background information or go into more depth about certain things (how Link feels about getting his watch stolen or how Shelter felt as he was murdering his victims, for example). Make sure it's not just all about blood and murder though (boys!).
The groupwork notes to help you can be found here:
http://flic.kr/s/aHsjCdatRN
Good evening. As I have had difficulties uploading the homework, it is now due for Wednesday, 19th September.
You are to draw analyse the language that Shelter uses in the following photographs and create a word cloud (a cloud shape containing lots of words) of MILITARY WORDS. For example, "tour of inspection". Only write the key words, not full sentences (unless you think the full sentence reminds you of militarial language (as we have discussed in class).
Any questions, come and see me before THURSDAY'S lesson!
Homework - for Thursday, 13th September.
Finish 9/11 writing. Remember to state if you are writing from the point of view of a person trapped in the buildings; a person who thinks a loved one may be trapped or a firefighter who has to enter the building.
Include your thoughts and feelings through and remember to CREATE SETTING - use the five senses to bring your work to life!
One finished in your English book, type up, print it out and hand in on THURSDAY, 13th September.
1-1.5 pages long, Arial, calibri or tahoma fonts; 12 or 14pt.
Type up on computer and print out. About 1-1/2 pages ´NO MORE.
If you cannot print it out, please email it to mrgibbenglish@gmail.com
Make sure Setting notes from prezi are finished.
Your homework for Tuesday 11th September, 2012:
Extension - do the same for Characterisation and Narrative Voice